Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-11

creek. an 'twa,n't their fault b. gosh, If it
couldn't furnish water enough, with all
tn rain it ID had fer a week past, fer 'em
to wiggle up on; so they jist put their
shoulders to the wheel an at 1t they went
an showed the rushin' flood OF oil SiopleE
right back with 'em, pilin' it up IN n wall
thirty foot high, an keepin' her moyln'
bsck so fast, steep ez the grade were, th't
she couldn' no footholt, an had to 90. SO
of COURSE ev'rything were left high an dry
ahind that pushin' army o. suckers, an
natur' in them parts were loOkin' queer.
"Pelec, wen ! ketched up to that re-
treatin' creek, nothin' could be seen on the
face o. that high wal o. water but shouts
an tails, an fins, an backs, an bellies O.
suckers They was piled on one another
from the bed o. the creek 10 the top o the
flood, pusbin' an shown an crowdln' to
keep the balls rollin'. Isee what the bull
business meant to wunst, an l pitched
right in 10 do some of the talest sucker
fishin' th't were ever heerd on along Stop
lick Creek. cbucked away my pole an
duy into that bank o. suckers an list went
mimi fish by the ton. They KEEP me on
ded run to keep up with 'em, they was
h'istin' that stream up hill so fast, but
l grabbed an clawed right an left,
an throw'd suckers out on the
bank by the wagon road. / strung suck
ers along the banks fer a miled, an still
the food went rollin' up hill ez easy ez
pickin' mp sticks The head waters o.
o. in almost
the top o. BOBBY Ridge. Ez l were run
min long ahind that sucker bank all OF
Student it struck me that if nothin' hap
pened TO stop 'em, them suckers'd shove
the creek clean through the swamp, the
way they was goin', an push her on over
the ridge, an then she'd go hellytehOOt
down t'other side an wipe Slaycrop's
clearin' often the face o creation quicker n
lightnin could melt tub O. butter.
were bound TO see the fun, an if suckers
want the timidest an skeeriest critters
th't swims, that fund a come to pass.
1t had happened, sonny, th't only the
day afore this high oil sucker fishin' o.
mine had considered it a leetle piece o.
duty owed to the community to pitch
inter Shadrack Jamberry, OF Poke jam
berry's boy, an lam him the properest
kind. Consistently he had grudge agin
me. He lived clus to the creek, nearly
two miled above our place, at the Fiddler's
Elbow Bend. This bend were 40 sharp
th't ez me an the suckers, an the creek
were comm to Yards the bend | see Shad-
rack standin' on the bank, an he see me.
TIL want nuthin' selfish about Inc, so !
hollered to Shadrack, to show him th't /
didn't hev no hard feelin's, TO come back
an foller the circus, an lay in stock O.
suckers agin a coon famine. But Shadrack
want of meek au' forgivin's natur, like
me, an so instid O. takin' the olive
branch offered, he grabs up couple o
big stuns an chucks 'em in the water
ahead o. rue an the suckers. That skeert
the timid fish th't was in tn lead, an
they got demon liked an turned tail. The
panic spread to the whole cabOodle o
suckers, an the fust thing know'd l were
h'isted up in the air Zif I'd been blOwed
up in blast, an wh-O-O-o-O! away / were
goin' back down stream like hail storm
in q hurTycane o. wind! Thar | were,
Peleg, ridin' high an dry on a big raft o
suckers, an goin' sumpin' like miled
minute boun' for somewhat, but whar |
didn't know Ye orter he very thankful,
sonny, th't yer a Twin now, an not in
them days W EN- us pioneers was a sutferin'
an n runnin' risks like that, jist to plant
civilization an git it in shape folks that's
livin' now
~ wore boosted way up so high by that
raft o. demon lized suckers th't ez we tore
o1o,,,. -, ,y,rjs nur toll,.iu ,laor;ni I cnpl1
look right down over the raise twixtit an
the creek, an ez we come higher l could
see my hard.workin. pap settin' in the
cabin door smokin' his corn-cob pipe, an
my easy-goin' nanny a chopin wood to
git supper with. Thinks, says to myself,
| wonder il they'll ever find me when this
runaway foo o. bilin' waters an panic
struck succers comes to head some're?
An list then we struck the bend
in the creek nigh the clearin'
The bend were bout ez sudden
ez the angle in ship-knee, an wen the
wall O. suckers plunked agin it the bank
O. the bend bein' twenty-five foot high an
all rock, 'twere like the comm together o
two ingines. The body o the army were
fetched up a Standin', but me an the
top layersO o. the suckiu' raft was five foot
higher'n the rocks an ez we hadn't hit
nuthin' we KEEP straight on. We left the
water Toute, an travelled the rest o. the
way by the air line, an fore my good OF
parents knOw'd wat hit 'em they were
kiyered snug an comfort bic in under sum-
PIN like an acre o suckers, not count
in me. 1t took HE quite while to
i. he al fall out hnN hnx,
want hurt anything with mentionin'
My folks want nOways noted for bein'
curions bout things, an all th't were
ever said bout that big sucker fish o. mine
was this. Nam says: Wizard We ketch
'em?' In the bend o the creek"
says 'pve alluz heeId," says pop, that
the best time 10 ketch suckers wes on the
fust flood, an this makes it good" An
that ended il. hut We had fresh suckers
an salt suckers, an smoked suckers, an
sucker pop from then on till the mex
Christmas. SO We see, Peleg, that them
wild waves didn't say nothin' TO me, but
they got right up an done, JAM
The Old Settler was cut short off in
whatever moral he intended TO draw, for
the doing cat hurled herself against his
stomach by one will leap from the splint-
bottomed rocking chair, and with q yell
that scared a dog on the opposite side of
the road and brought Peleg's grandmother
ont of the sitting room on trOt. The
cat sank its claws deeper and deeper into
the Old Settler, and he joined in the yell
ling. Little Peleg went quietly out of the
kitchen door, and by the time his mother
had removed patent clothes pin from the
cats tail he was half way over TO Bill SIM
mons's.
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